Indiana Excise Police took notice of a free poker tournament held at a local bar in Muncie Indiana. One hundred poker players sat hunched over poker tables when excise police arrived on the scene and requested backup from other law enforcement agencies due to the size of the c...

It's that time of year again! Time for the annual World Series of Poker events, known all over the world as the most prestigious poker tournament in existence. This years WSOP event kicked off at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas just after 12pm. The season opener was ...

I believe it is safe to say that most poker tables are green. However, the tables at this years world series of poker are more green than green. EGM green has launched a new kind of poker table at this years WSOP. Environmentally green. The table's are to be featured in t...

Poker Fans at the 2008 WSOP will be able to stand up for their rights as poker players to those involved in the making of involved policies at this years World Series events. The Poker Players Alliance, (PPA) known as a leader when it comes to advocating for the rights of free...

Day one of the inaugural Asian Poker Tour is passed us now, and Karina Jett leaves the room for the night as chip leader.

This tournament is another mile stone for the poker world, as the first ever Asian Poker Tour event. The event is taking place in the Philippines at the D...

UltimateBet has announced that they have added Cliff Josephy as a part of their new "Star Players" team, the Stars Players is a new division of players at UltimateBet and he will be joining other such players as Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke.

"A Star Player is one who has an u...

Sky Poker formerly known as SkyVegas is an interactive entertainment channel from BSkyB that airs gambling programming live from around the world from about 6pm to 2am and they have just launched two new interactive poker programs in the UK. 

The two new programs are Sta...

Annette Obrestrad is most recognized by her skills while playing No Limit Texas Hold'em after she won the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe championship event and now she is beginning to be very successful at Omaha as well.  According to her sponsor Betfair Poke...

The popularity of heads up poker is increasing fast, and with the newfound popularity the Heads up Poker Championship has also found its limelight. NBC Announced today that their production, will have a home at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada for the next four years.

The winner of the 2008 Bayou Poker Challenge World Series of Poker Circuit event was amatuer poker player Nick Ceci.  This was the final stop for the WSOP circuit as the season wrapped up on May 21st at Harrahs New Orleans where Ceci won the $382.928 dollar first prize.

People that are still looking for a way to win their entry into the World Series of Poker can get their $10,000 dollar seat at a Special Team Cleveland poker tournament that will be held at the Nautica Charity Poker Festival located inside of the Powerhouse at the Nautica ...

Daniel Negreanu is going to be teaming up with the Poker Players Alliance to offer the members of the organization another great perk.  He will be offering a weekly poker instruction column that will be available to all of the PPA's members.  "We salute Daniel Ne...

PokerStars has announced today that they are going to open a live poker room in Macau tomorrow.  The poker room has been named PokerStars Macau and it will have a 250 person capacity. 

PokerStars Macau will be located inside of the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino in Co...

Players at CakePoker earn Frequent Player points that they turn into Gold chips to enter in tournament or exchange for prizes.  Players can earn FPP by competing in cash games or at real money tournaments.  As you accrue more Frequent Player Points your Gold Chip met...

Full Tilt Poker has announced they are going to be hosting a $25,000 Heads Up World Championship of their own.  The tournament is set to start at 3pm EST on Saturday with the final two rounds of the tournament happening on Sunday at 4pm EST.  This tournament will...

Starting this Friday, May 23rd the largest European online poker festival will get under way at bet365.  The European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP) will be returning for it's second series and offers over $3.5 million dollars guaranteed in prizes over the d...

Bodog Poker has announced that they will be running their own tournament series called the Bodog Poker Mini-SOP that will start on May 30th and run until July 3rd.  The Mini Sop is going to feature the same 25 tournaments that run at the 2008 World Series of Poker but wit...

Full Tilt Poker offers players the chance to play in the bigger buy in tournaments that are held in some of the world's most exotic locations for a much cheaper price with their Winner's Choice series of qualifiers.  The Winners Choice tournaments are held on Satu...

South Africa's parliament has approved a new Internet Gambling law that will regulate the industry that was being plagued by crime and used to launder money and more according to parliament papers on Monday.   There was a memorandum attached to the National Gamb...

As the Summer sun continues to try make it's grand entrance this year Paddy Power Poker is helping it along by heating things up by offering thier daily $777 Summer Sizzler freeroll promotion.  The Paddy Power Poker Sizzler begins on May 19th and will run every da...

Poker Stars is holding a special poker tournament on May 19th that was organized by Devin Porter, known online as ranquilChaos and tobias fuke to help support a foundation that was set up in his fathers name. The tournament will be held on Poker Stars and it is a $30 + &#...

The World Series of Poker has just announced that they have reached a multi year alliance with XP Events to distribute WSOP branded merchandise across multiple retail touch points. 

This includes the new WSOP branded store in Las Vegas, an online shop and retail kiosks.&...

Action Poker, an online poker group has denied that they were unaware of a patent suit that was filed against them late last month.  An Action Poker spokesperson told us "We were informed about the case two days after it was filed and our legal counsel was on top of this....

The Taiwan firm Gigamedia owns the Everest online poker company and they have good new for their investors this week in their Q1 2008 results.  They have to report to their investors more real money players and soaring revenues.  Gigamedia's Chief Executive Artu...

Full Tilt Poker is going to be hosting their first ever $35,000 dollar Heads Up Championship on Saturday, May 24th.  As long as the tournament fills up which it is sure to there will be a total prize pool of $1.6 million dollars.  There is only room for 64 pl...

Bluff Media publishes one of America's leading poker magazines called Bluff Magazine and they have announced today that they have purchased the print component of Woman Poker Player magazine.  They have recognized that female players make up one of the fastest growin...

Layla Kaleigh is no longer the host of the World Poker Tour according to a poker blog that reported on Monday that she might be leaving the show and it has now been confirmed by a statement that was issued by the World Poker Tour.

"Layla Kaleigh brought great edge, wit and pe...

There were two events played on Monday night in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) VII and Event No. 11 was one of them.  Event 11 was one of the largest events in the series and this one saw 1,593 people pay the buyin of $1,000 dollars to have a chance at the ...

Titan Poker has sent a very skilled poker playing couple, Bruno Peyrou and Marise Massabo from Marseille, France to Madrid to play in the EuroCity Poker Open Madrid.  This isn't the first time that the couple has flown to a major live tournament for free but their thi...

Full Tilt Poker started offering Knockout bounty tournaments not too long ago but the site has put prices on the heads of their red named sponsored pros for a long time.  Players have had the chance to win their buy in back in almost every scheduled multi table tournament...

The IFC is getting ready to leave the ring and try out the felts.  On May 25th the International Fighting Championship is headed to New Orleans and they aren't bringing any gloves with them for this round but hopefully they have packed their poker skills. The Interna...

Wager Profits has just launched lucrative new bonuses for Action Poker affiliates that include a $100 dollar guaranteed cash bonus, a drawing for $1,000 dollars in cash and the chance to win the $600,000 dollar prize pool at the LAPT.   All affiliates th...

The Cherokee Casino Resort is going to kick off thier first Mid South Poker Classic on Thursday, May 15th.  This is going to be second of three major tournaments that will be held there this year.  The casino has been working on establishing their poker room's re...

Poker After Dark is featuring couples this week on shows they are calling "Love at First Raise" and the first couples episode will air on Tuesday at 2:05am on NBC.  It will star three romantically involved couples that will be competing for the $120,000 dollar winner ...

Hollywood Poker is launching their monthly Grand Tournament on May 30th where players will be competing for a part of the $1 million dollar guaranteed prize pool at the tournament.  Hollywood Poker is going to be bringing some extra excitement into the game by offerin...

The World Poker Association announced the launch of their first educational panel for members that is called "63 Money Making Tips to Win a Bundle at the WSOP".  The Panel is going to be led by Mike Caro, "Mad Genius of Poker" during the WPA Inaugural Conference.  Th...

Another day and another two events in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) VII have been played.  On Monday there were two more events that came to a finish and after a couple of hours of competition Full Tilt had their winners and paid out almost $2 million doll...

The final World Series of Poker Circuit event of the season is happening at the Harrahs New Orleans Casino and Resort.  The tournament will be running until May 23rd and their first event, the Fifth Annual Bayou Poker Challenge was a great success. 

Event 1 was the ...

The top professional poker players within Asia will be competing for their share of the $1 million dollar guaranteed prize pool at the first stop of the Asian Poker Tour (APT) soon.  The event will start on May 27th and run until June 1st at the Dusit Manila Hotel in...

Lee Rousso is a Washington State attorney and former candidate for governor who is suing the state to try and get rid of the law that makes it a Class C felony to play online poker there.  He is going to get his day in the King County Superior Court on May 15th and poker ...

The 888.com World Poker Crown finished on Thursday and the world was watching online as the final eight players competed live in Barcelona for the $1 million dollar top prize.  The fact that a lot of people were watching live world wide added some additional pressure ...

The World Series of Poker Academy's Ladies Only Event is scheduled for June 6th and 7th at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.  Annie Duke will be hosting the event and this is the chance for female players to hone their skills before the $1,000 buyin Ladies No Limit Hol...

Ladbrokes Poker is now offering a bonus up to $1 million dollars to any of it's team Ladbrokes players that reach the final table.  They decided to offer up the bonus after Harrah's Entertainment decided to delay the final table of the WSOP Main Even...

Titan Poker is a well known poker room online and they are looking to continue their success by hosting their first ever live tournament.  The live tournament that they will be hosting is the EuroCity Poker Tour (ECPT) Madrid Open.  The tournament will start on May 9...

Liv Boeree has been crowned as Ladbrokes European Ladies Champion after she outlasted 51 of Europe's top female tournament players.  Some of the players she had to beat were WSOPE winner Annette Obrested, Bev Pace, Michelle Orpe, Bev Pace, Katherine Hartree and last y...

There is good news for poker players that are under 21 in Iowa, the Maskawi Indian Tribe is now planning to offer poker to players that are 18 and up next month at their Tama Casino.  State Regulates however have banned the 18 to 21 year old players from the slot machines...

The first stop in the first year of the Latin American Poker Tour was in Rio and it drew in 314 players that all payed the $2,500 dollar buyin to compete in the tournament.  The event lasted for three exciting days of play at the inaugural event and then finally the w...

Just a few days after Bodog Poker introduced Justin Bonomo as their newest member of Team Bodog they severed all ties with Josh Arieh as they dropped him from the Bodog roster. 

According to a Morris Mohawk Gaming Group spokesman, the North American Licensee for the Bodo...

Microgaming has signed up three new licenses to their Microgaming Poker Network.  The new licenses in the Migrogaming netwook are bookmakers JenningsBet, Sunderlands and Eurofootball, all three are expected to be going live within the next few weeks.  JenningsBet and...

The Borgota Hotel Casino and Spa has finished their first ever $500,000 dollar Guaranteed Deep Stack Tournament on Tuesday.  This was a three day event that saw over 775 players compete for a chance at the largest guaranteed prize pool in Atlantic City History at $...

The first event of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series VIII was a $200 + $16 No Limit Hold'em Tournament that saw an impressive field of 4,158 players.  The winner of Event No. 1 was Isaac Baron known online as "the guru 11" after he outlasted the playing field ...

SpadeClub is giving members the chance to party at the Playboy Mansion with all the Bunnies.  All you have to do is sign up at SpadeClub between May 7th through May 13th and you will be automatically entered into a drawing for one of two tickets to play in the Vegas at th...

There is a great poker party happening on May 17th and celebrities and professional poker players from all over are headed to the Mansion.  This is the third annual Playboy Celebrity Poker Tournament that will raise money for charity and there are only two more opportunit...

Titan Poker has started handing out cash as to their players as the countdown to the Billionth hand began last week.  The popular online poker room will be giving away a total of $350,000 in cash as they count down towards dealing their one billionth poker hand. ...

The APAT Poker Association and Tour held their fifth event in the second season of their Tour.  The event was the Scottish Amateur Poker Championship that was held in Edinburgh's Gala Maybury Casino.  The tournament lasted for two days starting on May 3rd and fin...

The Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) is back again with their FTOPS VIII and there are going to be 24 events on the schedule.  The events include "Mystery" tournaments that will be announced later on.  Full Tilt is guaranteeing more then $10 million dollars ...

The World Poker Tour Canada (WPTC) is kicking off today at their first stop in the Coast to Coast Poker Championships.  The WPTC is being presented by the British Columbia Lottery Corporation at the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia.  The WPTC is...

Absolute Poker has started a new promotion that they have named Absolute Assassins.  The promotion is a way players can make their way into the World Series of Poker Main Event.  There will be $200 buy in Absolute Assassin qualifiers every Saturday at 8:30 pm Est...

Bodog Poker has just signed on poker pro Justin Bonomo to be a part of Team Bodog.  Bonomo is a twenty two year old player from Los Angelas, California and he originally got his start playing online as "ZeeJustin".  He then started to play live poker and in almost th...

A lot of people weren't happy when Harrah made the decision to delay the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event by three months so it could be played out on television without everyone already knowing the outcome.  But Everest Poker isn't among them t...

Cathy Roberts has set out on her way to win a ticket to the World Series of Poker for under $500 dollars.  The Main event entry itself is worth more than  $10,000 dollars, however, the small stakes poker playing momma believes she can get there for less than ...

James Mutchler was the Heartland Poker Tour Player of the Year in 2007 but so far this year he hadn't scored a win on the tour but, all that changed on Sunday.  Mutchler had made three final table events on the Heartland Poker Tour last year to get him the Player of t...

Poker Players from all over the world are headed to Venice today to board the MSC Cruise Liner for a week of great poker action at the Party Poker Million VI.  This is going to be a eight day cruise that will take players around the Mediterranean with stops at several pop...

NBC has changed the Heads Up selection process after four years.  The NBC selection committee has decided to implement a list of automatic invitations to be included in the show.  Any player that qualifies in any of the new categories will get an automatic invitation...

UltimateBet has donated a 2008 Aruba Poker Classic prize package to the Kentucky Derby Poker Championship today.  This is going to be charity Texas Hold'em tournament that was created to raise awareness of climate change and its impact on communities, particularly tho...

The Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT) is kicking off in Rio de Janiero, Brazil today for the inaugural event.  The event has 300 hopeful poker players and media from all over the world.  The tournament is a $2,500 No Limit Texas Hold'em event and it looks like ...

Titan Poker is rewarding their VIP Club members with the opportunity to win a share of $30,000 dollars.  This is all going to happen in May and it's going to make for a very exciting week for the members of Titan Poker's VIP Club.  Titan Poker is going to...

Party Gaming reported a 21 percent increase in revenues on Thursday as they are trying to assure their investors that they are still a profitable investment. 

The company once had the largest IPO back in 2004 and they were also the largest online poker room to be found b...

Matthew Higler is a poker author, publisher and professional poker player and he has won Full Tilt Poker's $750,000 Guaranteed poker tournament on last Sunday giving him a first place prize of $132,000 dollars.  When he was asked about playing at Full Tilt Po...

Full Tilt Poker has signed on as one of the sponsors for the World Series of Golf.   This may sound a little different since they are a poker site but this isn't going to be your usual golf game either.  This is a new kind of golf series that will let e...

Poker Professor is an online poker school and they have just announced four special tournaments and new promotions.  The fun will begin with a chance to get $150 dollars free with no deposit required.  To try for the cash all you have to do is register at Poker ...

After much time spent on planning and development the newest online gaming business opportunity information site, Poker-Software.us has opened it's doors for business.  Poker Software will now be providing information and resources to people that are thinking about s...